Cesare Pavese Quotes

The waiting is the hardest part.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

I hope it won't take long.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.